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Could anything be a stronger example of the #ruleoflaw than a former US President going to prison for breaking a law he signed while in office?
Popular opinion: Airlines need to stop treating seats and other upgrades that passengers paid extra for as free perks they are allowed to redistribute or demand you give up as they see fit unless they offer a full refund and compensation for your inconvenience.
I don’t want to fat shame but some people have wiener dogs that are shaped more like cheeseburger dogs
Schrodinger’s Palestine: Is Palestine a state for the purpose of assuming responsibility for attacking and attempting genocide against Israel? For surrendering and accepting defeat? For ending the lie of “Palestine Refugees” who somehow live in Palestine? For ending the fiction…
It will never cease to amaze me that the @washingtonpost STILL has Heba Farouk Mahfouz co-author articles for them, even after I exposed that she vowed to stand with Hamas "now and forever." But that's not the only problem with this new piece of Hamas propaganda 🧵
Meet Heba Farouk Mahfouz, a reporter in the @washingtonpost's Cairo Bureau. Since the start of 2025, all 13 of the articles she's written have focused on Israel and Hamas. The problem? She actually supports Hamas, and thinks Israel shouldn't exist. Let's dive in 🧵
I am deeply disturbed by reports that a group of Jewish children returning to France after participating in summer camp, singing in Hebrew and wearing stars of David, were forcibly removed from their flight. The Jewish community has faced prejudice and discrimination for…
Every single time I hear someone in the media question whether Mahmoud Khalil or his wife condemns Hamas I can't help but recall the time a week after 10/7 he literally sent spit flying in my face ranting about Jews and how great Hamas was.
BREAKING: The mediators (Qatar and the US) were so outraged by Hamas’ response to the hostage deal ceasefire proposal that they didn’t even share it with Israel and just demanded that Hamas come back with a new one.
Hamas like its fellow travelers in ISIS but also Nazis and Maoists is a nihilistic organization and that is why they have once again rejected a fairly generous ceasefire offer from Israel. Their counter proposal was apparently so absurd that the Qatari mediators didn’t pass it on
No one at the @ACLU defending the 1A right of the KKK to march through heavily Jewish Skokie made the claim that the KKK were good guys or fellow liberals. Now if you ask the ACLU about Khalil, and I have, a staffer impugns your morality for having the audacity to ask
The evidence that there is no genocide in Gaza is overwhelming and so is the evidence that the lie was a pre planned public relations strategy by Hamas, Al-Jazeera and their allies in many leftist organizations
As a Vermont Jew who spends a lot of time in the Middle East, it is cold comfort to have concrete evidence that if something were to happen to me here, my senior senator would embrace the perpetrators instead of my parents.
I met with Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian student at Columbia University, who was imprisoned for 104 days by the Trump administration for opposing Netanyahu’s illegal & horrific war in Gaza. Outrageous. We must not allow Trump to destroy the First Amendment & freedom to dissent.
Amnesty International in 2022 vs Amnesty International in 2025:
Goodbye my dear teacher… …a father to all of us …my friend. I love you @OzzyOsbourne and I will miss you terribly. #Ozzy
Hunter Biden just went off on the Democratic Party: "Fuck him and everybody around him... George Clooney is not a fucking an actor. He's a brand." "James Carville hasn't won a race in 40 fucking years." "David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack…
As to the media: they have long ago abandoned what should be the most basic standard: if a source lies to you more than once, they should be seen as unreliable. Instead we continue to see “Gaza health ministry” and “Gaza health officials” as the main source for all these…
There is a direct correlation between invention of lies concerning Israel in Gaza and the significance of Israel’s military moves there. As Hamas stonewalls negotiations, IDF moves in areas it hasn’t been before such as Dir el Balah. This freaks out Hamas and causes them to use…
Seen the latest 'massacre at aid site' headlines? They are the result of a vicious and deliberate demonisation of Israel pantomime in Gaza directed by Hamas - that is happening every day. Thread: ⬇️⬇️⬇️
What's happening to the Druze in southern Syria is exactly what happened to Jews on 10/7: Islamic terrorists massacring scores of people while joyfully filming and sharing their crimes to social media for the world to see